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CCEF
Calamos CEF Income & Arbitrage ETF
Category AllocationIssuer CalamosNet assets $34mFee 3.19%
Trading · Calamos CEF Income & Arbitrage ETF

CCEF bid-ask spread and liquidity

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As of Nov 4, 2026, CCEF’s holdings can absorb $227,902 a day.

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IQ Liquidity Score

· 2 of 6 measured · Nov 4, 2026
$227,902
its holdings can absorb a day
0 · Hard to trade100 · Trades like a giant

How easily this fund trades, from 0 to 100 on the same anchors for every fund; 100 is best. Method →

One dealer
Cost to trade
Not measured · the issuer's 30-day median spread is not read for this fund
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Capacity
Holdings can absorb $227,902 a day, Nov 4, 2026
0.0
Price fidelity
Not measured · no closing premium is held for this fund
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Primary market
2 active dealers of 7; largest 94% of creations and redemptions, N-CEN to Jul 31, 2025
30.0
Bad-day behaviour
Not measured · no daily closing premium is held for this fund
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Depth
Not measured · needs trade and quote data
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Capacity: what its holdings can absorb in a day. Price fidelity: how close its price stays to NAV, the value of what it holds. Primary market: the dealers who create and redeem its shares. Bad-day behaviour: its premium on the market’s worst days. Depth: the dollars quoted at the bid and the ask. How to read the score →

CapacityWhat its holdings making up 95% of the weight can absorb a day, at 10% of each one’s volume
Holdings can absorb
$227,902

CCEF’s holdings can absorb $227,902 a day, measured on its own holdings, as of Nov 4, 2026. A $1m order is 438.78% of a day’s capacity.

The holding that sets the limit: Bexil Investment Trust (BXSY), 3.49% of the fund, $87,769 a day traded, the median of 20 days to Nov 4, 2026.

Who makes the market

Authorized participants · N-CEN, the year to Jul 31, 2025
Active dealers
2
of 7 authorized
Largest
94%
of creations and redemptions
One dealer
No
2 active

2 of 7 authorized participants created or redeemed CCEF shares in the year to Jul 31, 2025. From the fund’s Form N-CEN, filed Oct 14, 2025.

APs create and redeem shares. Every AP →

Active APs, largest first, by share of dollars created and redeemed: Merrill Lynch Professional Clearing Corp. (93.6%), Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (6.4%). 5 more were listed and created or redeemed nothing.

What retail orders paid

One way on $10,000, Sep 2026
All wholesalers read
$4.71
Schwab customers
$4.15
Fidelity customers
$7.26

In Sep 2026, retail market orders in CCEF paid $4.71 one way on $10,000, against $12 at the quote.

99% of shares filled better than the quote.

Aug 2025Grey: old format, orders of 100 to 9,999 sharesSep 2026

Where it trades

Q2 2026, 62 trading days
Odd lots, of exchange volume
10.0%

In Q2 2026, odd lots were 10.0% of CCEF’s exchange volume.

Off exchange means wholesalers and dark pools. Odd lots are orders under 100 shares, a sign of retail trading.

How to place the order

To buy or to sell, up to $100,000
When
ETF spreads are usually widest in the first minutes after the open and the last before the close.
Size
Up to $2,279 is 1% of what its holdings can absorb in a day, for a buy or a sell.
Why low volume does not mean illiquid →Limit orders vs market orders for ETFs →
Not measured yet: these need trade data
Spread through the day

Median spread by half hour, 30 days.

Buyers against sellers

Volume bought at the ask against volume sold at the bid.

Retail flow, estimated

Trades priced in fractions of a cent, a sign of retail orders.

Large trades

Trades above $500k: how many, and their share of volume.

Closing auction

Share of the day’s volume at the close.

Questions people ask

Who is the AP for CCEF?

CCEF’s latest Form N-CEN, for the period ending Jul 31, 2025, lists 7 authorized participants (APs), and 2 created or redeemed shares. The largest were Merrill Lynch Professional Clearing Corp. (93.6%), Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (6.4%) of the dollars its APs created and redeemed.

Who is the LMM for CCEF?

CCEF’s lead market maker (LMM) on NYSE Arca is Susquehanna Securities, LLC. Lead market maker per NYSE Arca, as of Nov 1, 2026.
Where to next
ETF trading costs and liquidity→Cost-to-trade checker→Why low volume does not mean illiquidguide →Limit orders vs market orders for ETFsguide →How the IQ Liquidity Score is builtmethod →CCEF fund page→
Sources and dates
CapacityETFIQ, each holding’s 20-day median dollar volume · to Nov 4, 2026
DealersForm N-CEN · the year to Jul 31, 2025
Retail ordersSEC Rule 605 reports · Sep 2026
Where it tradesSEC MIDAS · Q2 2026

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